The Theological Origins of Modernity (Paperback)

from deusvitae

A reconceptualization of the history and development of modernity. The author envisions modernity in terms of a turn toward the natural to explain the tensions of the divine and human relationship according to a nominalist foundation. He sees the advancement of nominalism as the end of the legiti...

from kant1066

Modernity, broadly understood as a "realm of individualism, of representation of subjectivity, of exploration and discovery, of freedom, rights, toleration, liberalism, and the nation state," is often assumed to be rooted in a growing hostility toward, or at least indifference to, theological ide...

from nuwanda

"The Theological Origins of Modernity" is an ambitious project on the topic that many people have attempted (and most of them failed by different degrees) to cover authoritatively. For what my opinion is worth, Gillespie manages to pull it off rather remarkably. It deserves to be kept in mind tha...

from nuwanda

"The Theological Origins of Modernity" is an ambitious project on the topic that many people have attempted (and most of them failed by different degrees) to cover authoritatively. For what my opinion is worth, Gillespie manages to pull it off rather remarkably. It deserves to be kept in mind tha...

from nuwanda

"The Theological Origins of Modernity" is an ambitious project on the topic that many people have attempted (and most of them failed by different degrees) to cover authoritatively. For what my opinion is worth, Gillespie manages to pull it off rather remarkably. It deserves to be kept in mind tha...